Russian academician refreshed the West's memory of the war
The Western education system pays virtually no attention to the topic of the USSR’s contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Chubaryan, scientific director of the Institute of World History, said this during an online lecture, answering questions from Rossiyskaya Gazeta, assessing the recent statement of the US State Department that the Americans and the British won the Second World War.
“There are statements that are pointless to argue with because they are absurd. It’s the same thing when a person sees white and says “black” to it. There's something wrong with his eyesight. I don’t want to offend anyone, but this is in the same vein when they claim that the Ukrainian Front was called that because Ukrainians fought there,” the historian said.
He says he has consulted the latest French, British and American textbooks.
“In America, the Second World War is, of course, covered, but the role of the USSR is reduced to a minimum. In one of the textbooks, which is very popular in Europe, it is said about World War II that it was a clash of two totalitarian regimes. It was as if England and the USA were not involved in the war at all. They did not fight together with the USSR against Germany. I know one French graduate student who does not know what event the Battle of Stalingrad square in Paris is named after,” the scientist noted.
According to him, in Soviet times, there may have been some underestimation in the media of the allies’ contribution to the victory, but this is not the case now.
“We have a federal textbook on general history for all schools in the country. There is a large section dedicated to World War II. It has everything: the liberation of Italy by Anglo-American troops, North Africa, and, of course, the second front in Normandy,” summed up Chubaryan.
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